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'Here I Come to Save the Day...'
Reuters ^ | October 11h, 2004

Posted on 10/11/2004 4:02:48 PM PDT by missyme

EDMOND, Oklahoma (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man desperate to save his marriage by appearing like a hero to his wife ended up in police custody on suspicion of staging a crime where he hired burglars and foiled their fake robbery attempt, police said on Friday.

Trent Spencer, 27, of Edmond, north of Oklahoma City, was charged this week with the misdemeanor crime of filing a false report, said police spokeswoman Glynda Chu.

According to police, Spencer, a high school teacher, paid two students $100 each to break into his house and try to make off with a stereo.

The masked students tied his wife with duct tape and her husband was in the house just in time to foil the supposed crime, police said.

Police said Spencer attacked the two in a choreographed fight, even hitting one with a board that he had cut to break in half. The plan was going well until his wife freed herself and called police, something Spencer did not anticipate, police said.

Police rushed to the scene and eventually tracked down the fake burglars.

"It was the most bizarre hoax we've ever had," Chu said. "It's sad because he was so desperate."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: callthecops; dial911makeacopcome; dontlooknow; fakefight; mickeydonhav0onthis; mightymouse; mommasgotherboobsout; ohpuleese; rackemup
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To: mhking
He was my Favorite Mouse!
21 posted on 10/11/2004 4:55:49 PM PDT by missyme
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To: cyborg

What? when? that's awesome!


22 posted on 10/11/2004 4:56:37 PM PDT by missyme
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To: missyme

I have a very stupid question. How did you post this? The Post text I'm used to clicking to start a thread is gone, and I can't find anything like it.


23 posted on 10/11/2004 4:57:11 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: Xenalyte

I'm not sure what you mean The article is from Reuters...


24 posted on 10/11/2004 4:58:18 PM PDT by missyme
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To: missyme

I sing it to myself all the time (no one around me seems interested).


25 posted on 10/11/2004 4:58:26 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Look it up!)
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To: missyme

No I'm not getting married. I WISH no I was just thinking out loud :D Just saying that's how I would treat my husband to begin with. There are a lot of women who are married to wonderful men and they treat them like trash. Pretty sad.


26 posted on 10/11/2004 4:58:44 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: missyme

What did you click to get the Post Article page? It used to be in the top right of the Browse Forum area. Now it's not.


27 posted on 10/11/2004 4:59:08 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: Xenalyte

For some reason, the "Post" option doesn't show up when you look at new threads by clicking on "Browse." Try clicking on "News/Activism" in an existing thread.


28 posted on 10/11/2004 4:59:12 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

Then they don't know Mighty Mouse!

I haven't heard it on TV at all maybe it's on the Nicoledon
Channel


29 posted on 10/11/2004 5:00:01 PM PDT by missyme
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To: Slings and Arrows

Aaaaah, there we are . . . thanks!


30 posted on 10/11/2004 5:00:27 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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To: Xenalyte

P.S. Click here, and it'll be back:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse


31 posted on 10/11/2004 5:00:28 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: missyme
For some odd reason, my thoughts go back a few years to an FR thread in which some guy was acting out a bondage fantasy with his wife. He tied her to the bed, put on some costume and stood up on the bed only to be whacked in the back of his head by a ceiling fan blade and knocked unconscious. Upon hearing her screams, neighbors alerted police.
32 posted on 10/11/2004 5:00:57 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Xenalyte

De nada, chica.


33 posted on 10/11/2004 5:01:11 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Xenalyte; Slings and Arrows

Great! Slingsand Arrows

"HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY"


34 posted on 10/11/2004 5:04:50 PM PDT by missyme
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To: cyborg

Good to see you again! I thought you left and got freeper hitched! :)


35 posted on 10/11/2004 5:06:00 PM PDT by missyme
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To: missyme

My wife would have kicked the boys' asses in short order.


36 posted on 10/11/2004 5:06:42 PM PDT by numberonepal (Cameras, ammo, arms, eyes, and ears on election day.)
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To: missyme

Well I've been busy pursuing the vast sea of economic and educational opportunity in America :-)


37 posted on 10/11/2004 5:07:26 PM PDT by cyborg (http://mentalmumblings.blogspot.com/)
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To: missyme; Xenalyte
"HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY"

Good thing I wore my super-pajamas.

38 posted on 10/11/2004 5:11:51 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

And your cape too!


39 posted on 10/11/2004 5:13:42 PM PDT by missyme
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To: bushpilot
its something kerry would do

Well, Kerry would have somebody filming him doing it.

40 posted on 10/11/2004 5:17:48 PM PDT by paltz
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